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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26

Is apt to be o successful artist" The singer
whose favorite song is, won't Go Home
Till Morning." uses cloves and cardamons
to manage his breath ." f.." "
A magazine writer asks: "How shall we
utilize the Indians?" This is difficult ques-
tion to answer, but perhaps the best plan
would be to petrify them and sell them for
cigar-store signs. This idea Is worthy Of
consideration, anyhow.
"My little boy" said gentleman, you
ought not to eat those green apples. They
are not good for little boys" "They
hain't, eh?" the boy replied, with his mouth
full. "Guess you don't know much about
'em, mister. Three of these apples II keep
me out of school for week."
A good wig of white hair, says an Amer
lean tonsorial artist, costs about $40, but
(and this Is secret of the trade and can
only be told in whispers) tho material of
which these wigs are made is clipped from
the festive goat, and never from The human
head. A peculiarly soft, silky kind of
snow white hair originates on the Angora
rabbit.
A st. Petersburg cablegram says Riot,
| ing is reported from Narva, to which place
troops have been sent. 1t is the result of
| embittered disputes between the peasants
and landowners regarding the ownership
of certain woods. Eight villages in the vi
| cinity of Narva arc concerned in the quar-.
| rel. 1t is known that the peasants have
attacked the landowners, but nothing fur
| ther is known about the riot.
A. S. Abel, founder of the Baltimore
| Sun, who has jnst celebrated the 50th an
niversary Of his management of that jour
nal, received, in his private office, many
prominent citizens, who called to offer theil
congratulations and kilograms and letters
of congratulation poured in throughout the
day. Among them was a message from
President Cleveland, saying: Accept my
congratulations upon the 5Oth anniversary
of your management of the Baltimore Sun
with hope that your influence for good may
long continue to guide its course"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26
THE BLUE Ard TIE GRAY.
"With Malice Toward None, with Charity for
AL"
(From tho New York Herald }

(From tho New York Herald.)
The brave Southerners who took part in
Picketts brilliant charge at Gettysburg,
have been looking forward to July with
high anticipations. They hoped to meet
their Northern opponents on that famous
| and fateful day, to rehearse the events
| which were big with historic significance
| and TO recount to each other innumcrable
adventures and hairbreadth escapes.
They were also TO take with them mon
| ument, commemorative of the splendid
| courage of their comrades, and TO erect it
| on the furthest point reached within the
union lines. The plan is approved by the
survivors of the union forces which re-
pulsed and drove them back. There seems
| no harm In marking the spot where the
Northern forces were temporarily broken
| and If monument to Southern courage
stands close to O monument of Northern
pluck, what of it? The brave men on both
sides crossed their swords there. and the
| spot will forever have painful interest for
every American.
But the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial
Association say ''No, politely, yet decided
| ly. The are willing to have the monument
built at Picketts starting point, but not
within the lines Of tie Northern army.
They object, also, to tho inscription on the
| base OF the monument, two lines written in
pencil by General Lee and found in his army
satchcl after AppomattoX:
Glorious is his fate and cnvicd is his lot
Who for his country fights and for il dies
This strikes us n very mean and small
| business. So it will strike every soldier
who won honor on that field. The brave
man is always ready to give deserved praise
| to his opponent. 1t was an awful day,
| that day of Pickctt's charge, and stern
Southern stuff was met by stern stuff from
the North. If those magnificent armies
could meet in July, 1887, they would "pre-
sent arms to each other. If the cause of
the North was victorious 1t was not because
the South lacked courage, and we may well
be grateful that after 25 years the survi.
| vors, Northern and Southern, shake hands
| as citizens of united country.
The dead of both sides may properly he
honorcd. The South should be invited to
build as many monuments as they please,
and on any spot to which their dash and
valor give them claim. Those heroes lie
side by side in neighboring graves, and if
| the monuments of North and South touch
| each other they are simply typical of the
two forces which during the charge were
close enough to cross bayOncts.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26
The Cotton Movement.

Tho New York Financial Chronicle in
it's weekly cotton review, says that for
the week ending Friday evening, the 18th
inst, the total receipts have reached 10.
666 bales, against 13, OFT bales last week,
10, al bales the previous week, and IA,
222 bales three weeks since; making the
total receipts since the 1st of September,
1886, 5, 147, 1897 bales, against 5,113, ,1O2
bales for the Same period of 1856,
showing an increase since September |,
1886, of 81, 795 bales.
The exports for the week ending the
same timo. reach total of 13, 773 bales,
of which 9, l49 wore to Great Britain, 27
to France, and 1857 to the rest of the
continent.
The imports into continental ports
for the same period have been $4,000
bales.
There was an increase in the cotton
IN sight, Friday night, of 80, ,729 bales
as compared with the same date of
1886, an increase of 1N, 1913 bales as COM
par=tt with the corresponding date of
1885, and decrease of 206,2 bales as
compared with 1884.
The old interior stocks have decreased
during the week 1886 bales, and were
Friday night 1912 bales less than at
the samo period last yea. The receipts
at tho same towns have been 1892 bales
less than the same week last year, and
since September l the receipts at ali the
towns are 6,661 bales ruore than for the
same time in 1866.
The total sales fer forward delivery
for tho week are 402, 800 bales. For inn
mediate delivery tho total sales foot nn
this week 3,959 bales, including 100 for
export, 1850 for consumption.
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Grants Orders to Sheridan.

In connection with the criticisms made
by General Rosecrans on General Sheri.
dams rayaSes in the valley of Virginia
during the war, number of dispatches
sent by General Grant to General Sheri-
dan, from August to November, 1864,
have been made public, which show that
the devastation wrought by Sheridan
was committed partly under General
Grants orders. Under date of August
l6, 1861, General Grant directed SGeri-
dan to send division of cavalry through
London county to "destroy and carry
OIL crops, animals, negroes and all men
under fifty years of age capable of bear
ing arms. In this way you will oct
many of Mosby's men," Under date of
August 2G, General Grant ordered
Sheridan to edo all the damage to rail
roads and crops that you can, carry off
stock of all descriptions and negroes, so
as to prevent further planting. If the
war is to last another year we want the
Shenandoah Valley to remain barren
waste" In November he suggested to
General Sheridan that it would be ad-
visible to "notify all citizens living east
OF the Blue Ridge to move north Of the
Potomac all their stock, grain and pro-
visions OF every description" "There
is no doubt" General Grant continued,
''about tie necessity of cleaning out that
country SO that it will not support
Mosby's gang. So long as the war lasts
these people must be prevented from
raising another crop, both there and as
high up the valley as we can control"
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The Sprague Family.

The complicated domestic affairs of the
Sprague family have long held an undue
snare or public attention. 1t will be re
memoered that Ex-Governor Sprague of
Rhode Island, after being divorced from
the daughter of Chief Justice Chase mar
ried girl at Staunton, Va, and that his
son Willie further illustrated the family
tendency to peculiar matrimonial perform,
anccs by marrying his step. mothers sister
and becoming by that operation his own
uncle-in.law. The boy has now further
proved his devotion to the paternal exam,
pie by applying for divorce from his wife
on the ground that he was not of legal ace
when married.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26
A New Telephone.

DR.. Cornelius Herr has invented tclc
phone which can be made for 62t cents
Wherever the electric button can be used
l1erzs telephone can be applied. 1t is cs
pecially adapted to use in hotels and resi-
dences. With it one can speak as well q!
ring. The people will welcome all inven
tions of the kind. They add to the conve
nicnces we now enjoy
Ere long the rate on the Bell telephone
will be reduced, and it will be placed vithil
reach Of hundreds who are denied the use
OF it by the unreasonable and eXorbitan
rental which Is demanded by the company
illinois proposes that the rental in tha
State shall not exceed $3G per annum fol
each instrument. New York is canvassine
the question. The price ought to be re
duced by the company itsclf.-Augustc
Chr0nScl6.
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A GEoRGIA.vIEW.
'The Curious Comments OF Some People on tho
e. Discharge or BlacItwood.
From tho Atlanta Constitution,

a. .NSAohh Nlo hUitnUa sCOnSp1tut1On.)
The governor has as yet received no ap.
pllcation for requisition for Il. A. Black
wood, the neutrality-suspicious. forger who is
now under arrest in Aiken county. South
Carolina. ~
1t Will be remembered that when Black
! woods application for writ of habeas
corpus was decided in his favor, instead of
being turned loose, he was placed upon
South Carolina soil, but, by strange coin
cidence, right within reach of some South
Carolina constables, who had warrants for
MS arrest. 1t was supposed that immediately
after his arrest application for requisition
would be made by the Augusta authorities
But so far there are no evidences of any
such action.
The decision of Judge Roney in this case
seems to amuse good many members of
the profession in Atlanta. They say that
the only question before the court was the
legality of the arrest Of the prisoner, and
that that question could not have been
made by the prisoner. That has been the
universal decision. So Judge Roney must
have released the prisoner because he found
that his arrest was illegal and that the SOW
ereign-that is the State of South Carolina
was demanding his release. There is no
law on the face of the earth to sustain him
In this position. 1t is not comfy nor eX
tradition nor anything else. But the most
amusing fact connected with the whole
affair was that BlaCllwood was not released.
Ii entitled to his liberty he ought to have
walked out Of the court house free man.
But 1t seems that while declaring that he
ought to be released, the Judge did not re.
lease him, but instead put him In custody of
the sheriff to carry him back to South Car.
olina. The sheriff didn't carry him bacl,
to South Carolina, but carried him down
below, Augusta to Sand Bar Ferry, and put
him in boat and carried him over to tho
South Carolina coast ON Beach Island
where two South Carolina officers stood
ready to arrest him.
WHO sent them to that particular point
on the river?" asked q prominent attorney
who was discussing the question yesterday.
WHO sent the sheriff with his prisoner
several miles down the river when there
. was broad .bridgc by which they could
have crossed to Carolina? Where did
Judge Roney find his authority for releas
ing prisoner on habcas corpus and still
holding him in custody? Who sent the
sheriff down the river? All this may be
very adroit management, but it isn't law.
Such decision will be ridiculed on both
sides of the river"
This is q sample Of the queries put by
different members Of the bar whp.l discuss
ing the BlackwOOd matter. The prepon.
derance Of opinion seems to be that Judge
Roncy's decision is not good law, but while
they criticise his decision, all Join in paving
the highest tribute to his character as O man
and in expressing the belief that he has
acted cOnscicntiously throughout
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26
sovonty-Nlne Snakes and seven 'Posyams.

Martin Diet, while at work on n niece
OF ground near the residence of Josenh
Puper, Garden City Park, found q nest
of black snakes, about thirty in ali.
which he killed in few minutes. The
following day ne found q batch of forty
his two dogs killed. The snakes were
evidently alternating, not having awak-
ened from their winters lethargy, and
so became easy victims to the farmer
and his two dogs. The largest snake
measured five feet seven inces. The
capture of large 'possum, with six
young 'possums, by Alfred Cornell, at
Mineola, the other day, caused quite q
stir in colored society circles, with whom
baked 'possum has become much of 9
luxury of late years. john Allen, who
purchased the animals from Mr., Cornell
much to tho chagrin of his colored
neighbors, declines to either away OF
sell any of them.--New York Herald.
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MORE OF BLACKWOOD.
Efforts to Bring About n Compromise In the
Interests OF Stone and NIcNaIIy.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.l

(From the Atlanta ConstitutionD
The friends OF Stone and McNally,
the two men charged with having kid
mapped the forgcr Blacllwood, arc making
q strong effort TO bring about some compro-
mise by which these men may escape trial
upon the charge hanging over their heads
For some days the officers here have been
expecting to receive an application for q
rcquisition for BlaCkwood, but no such ap-
plication has as yet been received
1t will be remembered that when the
habeas corpus case was decided in favor of
Blackwood the court, instead Of ordering
his release, turned him over to the custody
of the sheriff Of Richmond county, with in
structions to "place him back upon South
Carolina soil" This was done, but it was
done in a way which indicates that there
must have been some previous understand
ing between the authorities of Richmond
county and those of Aiken county, S. G.
A broad bridge joins Augusta and Ham
burg, and had the prisoner been released
and he should have been under the decision
of the court, he would undoubtedly have
made straight for that bridge as the short
est path to safety 1t is natural to SUPPOSE
too, that the sheriff would ordinarily have
taken Blacllwood to South Carolina by this
route.
Did he do this? Hardly. Mr.. Sheriff cv-
ucutly Nus lOnuncSS IOr water routes, and
to crafty this fondness takes his prisoner
several miles down the river, where a row
boat is obtained, and together they are
landed on the South Carolina bank of the
river. BY strange coincidence, several
Aiken county constables happen to be at
the same point at the same time and the re-
suit is BlaclwOOd's ride to liberty is moth
ing more than a transfer from a iail in
Georgia to one in South Carolina.
Blackwood is supposed to be held until a
requisition can be issued for him, but he is,
in reality, being held until some sort of an
agreement can bc brought about.
Stone and MCNally are considerably
ayersc to being tried in South Carolina for
kidnapping and if they can effect some ar
rangcment by which the wounded honor
of the State of South Carolina can be an.
peased they will gladly do so. AS the
matter now stands they arc to be turned
over to the authorities of Aiken county, S.
g., as soon as the cases pending in Georgia
courts are decided.
1t IS stated upon good authority that
their attorneys have made proposition tO
drop the prosecution against Blackwood in
case the same is done with the cases against
Stone and McNally.
This is the same proposition that was
made by their friends before the habeas
corpus case was decided. The South Car
olina authorities refused to entertain il then,
and it does not seem likely that they will
do so now. If this fails, compromise
will be sought on some other basis.
In the meantime Blackwood languishes
in JAIL
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work, Work, Work :"

How many women there arc working TO-
day in various branches of industry-to
say nothing Of the thousands of patient
housewives whose lives are IN unGcasine
round OF toil--who are martyrs to those
complaints to which the weaker sex is lia,
Die; Their tasks are rendered doubly hard
and irksome and their lives shortened, yet
nara necessity compels them to keep on.
10 sucn Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prcscrip,
ton" offers sure means relief. For all
female weaknesses it is a certain cure. AN
druggists.
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Liver, Blood, and Lunqs.

II you feel dull, drowsy, dcbilitated have
OH face or body, frequent headache or dizzi-
ness, bad tnsto in mouth, internal heat or
ana gloomy forcbodings, irregular appetite,
and coatcd tongue, YOU are suffering from
G4ni1dgcsSi oN, REspcpsia, and Torpid
cases only part of these symptoms are expo
rioEcGd: As Y remedy for all such cases,
Dr. Picrce'S Golden Medical Dis
cOycry Ia unsurpassed.
For Ncnk Aungs, Splitting OF
EiGOds Sfs0rtnCS% OF Breath, BrOns
Ghitis, asthma. severe Coughs, and
kindred directions, it Is an cglcicnt remedy.
RGETLES f0r $500.
Send ten cents in stampss for DR.. Plerce's
book on Consumption. Address,
citation, 603 Main Street, BUFFALO, Ny.
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A Sensation

Why is it that three bottlos of.B. B. b.
arc sold i'll Atlanta to one of. any other
blood remedy, and twice as much con-
sumed III the State of Georgia as any
other preparation? No one need take
our word, but simply ask the druggists.
Ask the people. They are competent
witnesses. Six houses III Atlanta are
buying B. B. Il. in five and ten gross
lots, and soma Of them buy as often as
every two months. Why these unpre,
cedented sales here at home with SO little
advert rtising? Modesty forbids us mnkine
reply. Had B. b. B. been before the
public quarter or half century, j,
would not be necessary to be bolstcrcd
up with crutches of page advertisement,
now. Merit will conquer and down
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Suicide OF an Alligator.

One day last week a negro man, while
fishing in the Hodchodkec creek, caught
an alligator six feet long on his set lines
The alligator got the large line twistc
around his throat and was nearly chokcd g
death when the fisherman caught hi n.
Whether his death was accidental or a Ire
meditated suicide is hard to dcterD nc.
The negro held post mortem examination
and found the usual lightwoOd knot IN the
CATERS fish basket. He sold the hide and
secured seven pounds of alligator steak for
his Sunday dinner.-LWnapktn, Ga, nue.
pendent
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A Bargain in Corner Lots

Is what most men desire, but to kceI
from filing grave in cemetery lot err
half your day are numbered, always kceI
a supply of Dr. PierCe's Golden Mcdica
discovery" by you. When the first symp
TOMS OF consumption appear lose no time
IN putting yourself under the treatment ol
nothing else will. Possessing, as il docs
ten times the virtue of the best cod livci
oil, 1t is not only the cheapest but far the
pleasantest to take. 1t purifies and en-.
riches the Blood, strengthens the system
cures blotches, pimples, eruptions and otheI
humors, By druggists.
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An instant relief for collie ofy;infants.
Cures Dysontory, Diarrhma, Cholera
lnfQntum or any diseases of the stomach
and bowels. Makes the critical period
Of Teething safe and easy. Is safe and
pleasant tonic. For sale by all druggists,
and for wholesale by HOWARD, WILLET
& Co, Augusta, Ga.
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All who desire full information about the
cause Snd cure OF Blood PoiSons, Scrofula and
ScrofulonS swcllings, Ulcers, Sores, Rheuma
tlSn, Kidney Complaints, Catarrh, etc can
secure 10y mail: free copy our 81 page Illus.
wonderful and startling proof ever before
known. Address, BLGOD BALM CO.,
AtiaD1n. Ga.
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Fifty mounted men have left Austin,
Texas, by train for Mcneil, ten miles away,
near which point big robbery OF the
north bound train is reported.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26

The will of WD.. c. Depauw was pro
bated Thursday. 1T beque0ths SO, 3,OO0,0OC
to his family, and the residue of his estate,
estimated ~ So, 600, 900, is devoted to ben.
evolcnt and educational purposes, includ,
ing bequest Of $1,O25,000 to Depauw
University.
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GONSUMP'TNGHN

which is ScrOfuIa OF tho I.unRs. ia ar.
rested and cured by this rcmedy, if taken he
fOrc the last stages of the disease are reached.
From it's marvellous power over this terribly
lnial disease, when first Offering this now
thought. seriously Of calling it his "Con-
GumptiOn Curc,o but abandoned that
from it's wonderful combination of tonic, or
strengthening, Alternative, or b!ood-clcansng,
anti-biious, pGct0ln',, and nutritirc rroper-
tica, is uncQIInlCd, not only ;,S Il remedy for
consumption, but for all Chronic Dis
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CURE9 ALI. HzUNTOEesa.

from common EsIotch, or EruntIon.
to tho worst Scrofula. Sait : rfseMnis
Skin, in short, all diseases caused Sy Bad
blood arc conquered by this powerful, pnri-
flying, and invigorating medicine. Great
Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under it's be-
nign influence. Especially has it manifested
It's potency in curing Tetter, II ose Rashs
ulous sores and SWollings, Mips
Joint Disease, White SweIIings,
G1itrS, or Eh elk Neck, and Enlarged
%lanns. Send ten cents in stamps for a
argo treatise, with colored plates, on Skin
Dlsctscs, or the same amount for q treatise
on .SCrofulous Affections.
nv, THE BLOOD rs THE LHFE.,,
1Gg Gh91rGGEghly " cleanse IT by using nr. Pierce's
digestion, n fair skin, buoyant spir.
Ats, and vital strength, will be establjshetl
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1t Is better to give than to receive, This
Ppplies particularly to advice. -.
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Sl.OO WORTH $500. 90.

For TOUR years have been sufferer
from terrible form of Rheumatism,
which reducel me SO low that all hope
of recovery was given up. L have suffer
ed the most excruciating pain day and
night, and often while writhiDg in agony
have wished could die. [ have tried
everything known for that disease, but
nothing did me any good, and have had
some of the finest physicians of the
State to work on me, but all to no effect.
J. have spent over $500 without finding
relief. / am now proud to say that after
using only ono bottle Of b. b. B. I am
enabled to walk around and attend to
business, and L would not take $500 fol
the benefit received from one single bot,
tic of B. b. b. refer to all merchants
and business men of this town. Yours,
most truly, L. O. CARA.
WaYo;Iy, Walker county, Texas.
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Demonstrated III crit.
SPARTA, Ga, May Is, 1886. e
BLOOD BALM Co: You will please shil
us per first freight one gross s. b. b.
1t gives us pleasure to report q good
trade for this preparation. Indeed it has
far ccipscd all other blood remedies,
both in demonstrated merit and rapid
sale with us. RozIER & VARDEMAN,
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(lIdgcflcld Monitor. !

Mr.. Villman now admits that the "form
ers' movement" has politics in it, And Sc
we have cOntcndcd all the time. And tC
nave politics VIC must have politicians
And politicians are about the same th,
world ovcr-the outs are all patriots ant
the ms arc anything but what they ough
to be .